On the other side of the Void,
the Heaven remembered something "Chaos Qi".
And from that memory, it created an echo:
Qi — the "life essence" of existence.
Qi was Heaven's attempt to imitate the wild truth of Chaos Qi, but in a structured, obedient form.
By cultivating Qi, warriors believed they were comprehending reality. A reality meticulously painted by the Will of Heaven.
What they didn't know was that Qi was not just energy. Qi carried Will — and that Will, once inside the universe, began to multiply.
Every reality formed by Heaven had its own Will.
Every being touched by Qi gained a fragment of that Will.
The multiplication of Will spiraled.
It filled the cosmos.
And eventually...
The Will of Heaven lost control of its own creations.
So, it did what all heavenly megalomaniacs do when their children misbehave.
It made rules.
Those rules became the Dao.
The Dao was declared supreme.
And the Supreme was the Heavenly Dao —